With the newly stocked, battery-powered S1 and the AC-powered S1A, Interfit joins the small but growing number of manufacturers producing TTL studio strobes. Both flash heads have fast 3-second recycling time at full power and a fraction of that time at lower power. Both have 3 shooting modes: wireless TTL for Canon or Nikon, Manual, and High-Speed Sync. With the separate purchase of a dedicated transmitter, wireless TTL works with your S-series head the way you would with your on-camera flash, but wirelessly, at distances up to 328'. The flash heads use in-camera technology to adjust your exposure from 7.8 to 500Ws across a 7-stop range, from 7.8 to 500Ws. You can tweak the exposure in 1/3 stops over a +/- 3 stop range. It's an ideal system for multiple location shooting or on-the-fly photography.
Sometimes, as in close-up work, you want to make all of the decisions yourself. Manual mode gives you traditional control over the entire power range. It's also the key to High-Speed-Sync (HSS) that allows you to overpower the sun and control background brightness by syncing at shutter speeds as fast as 1/8000-second.
The S1 and S1A ship with multi-voltage power supplies, but the AC/DC S1 also includes a 350-full-power-shot-capable lithium-ion battery that fits inside the flash head's housing and charges in 3 hours.
2 Comments
When in high speed sync, is TTL also functional? The discussion above seems to imply that they are different modes and that HSS is only for manual. Thanks
HSS is only possible when the flash is set to manual mode. It would not be an option when using TTL.